vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17045: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2017
Added
Jan 3, 2018
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
NEW

Explore Exposure Command

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